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"Imagination is intrinsic to our inner lives. You could even say that it makes up a ‘second universe’ inside our heads. We invent animals and events that don’t exist, we rerun history with alternative outcomes, we envision social and moral utopias, we revel in fantasy art, and we meditate both on what we could have been and on what we might become. "

"Something as simple as an everyday conversation causes the brains of the participants to begin to work simultaneously. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain, and Language (BCBL), recently published in the magazine Scientific Reports."

"Like in a nail-biting thriller full of escapes and subterfuge, photons from far-off light sources, such as blazars, could go up against a continuous exchange of identity in their journey through the Universe."

Exchanges of Identity in Deep Space

A possible explanation for this surprising anomaly is that light photons are transformed into hypothetical weakly-intera...

Join us and many of the intellectual giants in the field of consciousness research for the upcoming Beyond the Brain event in October. Please share details with all of your friends and contacts - not to be missed!

"Music is not only a major part of Dan Fabbio's life, as a music teacher it is his livelihood. So when doctors discovered a tumor located in the part of his brain responsible for music function, he began a long journey that involved a team of physicians, scientists, and a music professor and culminated with him awake and playing a saxophone as surgeons operated on his brain."

Patient Plays Saxophone While Surgeons Remove Brain Tumor

Using brain mapping, surgeons remove brain tumor of musician without impacting his talent.

"The fact that living beings are surrounded by an electric field should not come as any surprise, as every living cell can be described as generating electricity. Early in the twentieth century, the Indian biologist J. C. Bose published a series of books in which he demonstrated the significant role that electricity plays in the growth and development of plants and animals."

Plant Fields and the Bumble Bee

The fact that living beings are surrounded by an electric field should not come as any surprise, as every living cell ca...

"But like so many other empty ideas, the multiverse has consequences. If we accept it, we abandon the view that science deals with the observed facts of nature. We adopt the view that it tells us what we want to believe about ourselves. In other words, the multiverse is science’s assisted suicide."

The Multiverse Is Science’s Assisted Suicide | Evolution News

Cosmologists sense the problem and strive to rescue their multiverse from the nagging demands for evidence.

"The concept of schizophrenia is dying. Harried for decades by psychology, it now appears to have been fatally wounded by psychiatry, the very profession that once sustained it. It's passing will not be mourned."

The concept of schizophrenia is coming to an end – here's why

The concept of schizophrenia is dying. Harried for decades by psychology, it now appears to have been fatally wounded by...

"The British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt had reached arguably the pinnacle of his field as chairman of the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Then in 2009 he was summarily dismissed from his position. In May, Reason TV's Zach Weissmueller sat down with Nutt to discuss his sacking, and what he's learned from the psychedelic research he continues to do at Imperial College London."

Neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt on Alcohol, LSD, and Getting Sacked for His Findings

The British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt had reached arguably the pinnacle of his field as chai...

Walk With Me, a cinematic journey into the world of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, will premiere in New York on August 18 at The Rubin Museum of Art. Screenings will be held through August 26, followed by the film’s nationwide release in theatres across the United States.

Watch the trailer for the Cumberbatch-narrated Thich Nhat Hanh documentary, “Walk With Me,”...

"Walk With Me," a cinematic journey into the world of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, will premiere in New Yor...

"In launching this blog, I am going back to some of the key ideas discussed in founding the Network over forty years ago. In those days, parapsychology was, as it is today, a disreputable field. Little had been published there. Doctors who practiced homeopathy did so in secret. Meditation was new, practiced among student groups or followers of the Maharishi. Biological energy fields? Nobody talked about them or knew what they were. Well, not exactly nobody. There was the Wrekin Trust, the Attingham Educational Centre of Sir George Trevelyan. When the first meetings of “the Conspiracy” took place — that was how the founders called themselves, their thought was for establishing a safe place for dialogue on scientific topics such as parapsychology, energy fields, dowsing, higher modes of consciousness. The Network was a means for people with such interests to find each other."

New Discoveries, New Directions – Introducing a new blog

By Paul Kieniewicz (SMN Website Editor) In launching this blog, I am going back to some of the key ideas discussed in fo...

"Our view of the earliest flowers just bloomed. A new reconstruction, the most detailed to date, suggests the flowers were bisexual, with more than five female reproductive organs, or carpels, and more than 10 male reproductive organs, or stamen. "

A new portrait of the world’s first flower is unveiled

A reconstruction of the first flowers suggests the ancient blooms were bisexual.

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